Old English Country Cottages (page 1/4)

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Letter K

A decorative initial capital K from page 11. Judging by the carefully-trimmed shrubbery I’d say the initial was made for the book. [$]

Pershore, Worcestershire

From a [painting] by Wilmot Pilsbury. A bucolic pastoral scene of half-timbered english country cottages, complete with a hay-rick and a cattle barn, and a string of washing. [more...] [$]

Haslemere, Surrey

A young woman stands at the gate to an English cottage garden. She holds a child in her arms, and she wears a long dress and a somewhat soiled apron. The gate is set in a thick hedge, but we can see sunflowers, creeper, and perhaps marigolds and other flowers, and behind her we seee her house, with its old-fashioned casement windows open wide, with [...] [more...] [$]

Letter T from page 47

A decorative initial used as a drop cap (drop capital) at the start of a chapter. The letter features an open casement window with two birds sitting on the top and another flying [...] [more...] [$]

Decorative element: overgrown well bucket

A woodcut of a well bucket with rope and overgrown winch, used at the end of a chapter. You could also see a letter “A” in it, so I have also marked it as a decorative initial A. [more...] [$]